My main areas of research are in metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. Among other things, I am the author of Paradoxes of Time Travel, the co-author of The Power of Logic, and the co-editor of Metametaphysics. For further information on these and other publications, see my profiles on Academia, GoogleScholar, and PhilPeople.
Metametaphysics. Co-edited with D. Chalmers and D. Manley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Paradoxes of Time Travel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
The Power of Logic, 6th edition. Co-authored with D. Howard-Snyder and F. Howard-Snyder. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019.
The Standard Objection to the Standard Account. Philosophical Studies, 111 (2002): 197-216.
The Argument from Temporary Intrinsics. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81 (2003): 413-19.
Recombination, Humean Supervenience and Causal Constraints: an Argument for Temporal Parts? Co- authored with with J. Hawthorne and M. Scala. In D. Zimmerman, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Framing the Debate over Persistence. Metaphysica, 5 (2004): 67-80.
The Constitution Question. Noûs, 38 (2004): 693-710.
Indeterminacy, Ignorance and the Possibility of Parity. Philosophical Perspectives, 14 (2004): 391-403.
Humean Supervenience and Personal Identity. The PhilosophicalQuarterly, 55 (2005): 582-93.
The Future Similarity Objection Revisited. Synthese, 150 (2006): 57-67.
The Problem of Change. Philosophy Compass, 1 (2006): 48-57.
A Gradable Approach to Dispositions. Co-authored with D. Manley.The Philosophical Quarterly, 57 (2006): 68-75.
On Linking Dispositions and Conditionals. Co-authored with D. Manley. Mind, 117 (2008): 59-84.
Material Constitution. In E. Zalta, ed., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009.
Van Inwagen on Time Travel and Changing the Past. Co-authored with H. Hudson. In D. Zimmerman, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
The Paradox of the Question. Co-authored with D. Whitcomb. Philosophical Studies, 154 (2011): 149-59.
Dispositions and Generics. Philosophical Perspectives, 25 (2011): 425-453.
Intentional Action and the Unintentional Fallacy. Pacific PhilosophicalQuarterly, 92 (2011): 524-534.
Dispositions, Conditionals, and Counterexamples. Mind, 120 (2011): 1191-1227.
Personal Identity, Indeterminacy, and Obligation. In G. Gasser and M.Stefan, eds., Personal Identity: Simple or Complex? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Lewis on Backward Causation. Thought, 4 (2015): 41-51.
Theories of Persistence. Philosophical Studies, 173 (2016): 243-250.
Dispositions without Teleology. Co-authored with David Manley. In D. Zimmeran and K. Bennett, eds., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Time Travel, Abilities, and Arguments by Analogy. Thought, 5 (2017): 17-23.
Vagueness and the Laws of Metaphysics. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 95 (2017): 66-89.
Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Dependence. Noûs, 55 (2021): 603-622.
The Independence Solution to the Problem of Theological Fatalism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 104 (2022): 66-77.
Lessons from Grandfather. Co-authored with Andrew Law. Philosophies (Special Issue on Time Travel), 7 (2022): 1-10.
Freedom and Time Travel. In J. Campbell, K. Mickelson, and V.A. White, eds., A Companion to Free Will. New York: Wiley, 2023.
Time Travel, Incompatibilism, and the Fixity of the Past. Erkenntnis, 89 (2024): 2953-2966.
Intrinsic Properties and the Problem of "Other Things". Ratio, 38 (2025): 8-15.
Todd on the Open Future. Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming.
Geach on the Mutability of the Future. Philosophia, forthcoming.
The Shackles of Foreknowledge. Analysis, forthcoming.
The Paradoxes of Time Travel: 50 Years Later. Organon F, forthcoming.
Katherine Hawley's How Things Persist. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81 (2003): 286-8.
Hud Hudson's A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person. Philo, 6 (2003): 307-13.
E.J. Lowe's The Four-Category Ontology. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2006).
Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Problem of Change. Philosophy Compass, 5 (2010): 283-6.